Postcards, Tall Chess, and More

It may have been a (thankfully) short week, but the app gears were turning just as hard as ever. So relive the glory days of the long weekend of yore, and kick back with a bundle of apps that aim to make your life just a little bit easier. Or at the very least, a little more fun.

Postcards: The Tumblr app is, admittedly, a wonderfully designed one. And there's no denying it has more functionality than something like Postcards. But for those who use Tumblr more as a means of finding articles to read instead zipping through streams of GIFs, this might be exactly what you're looking for. [£1.49]

Analog: A little over a year ago, Realmac Software released Clear, an iOS to-do list app that made the task of keeping track of tasks easy with a beautifully simple design. Now they're taking a crack at replicating that success by simplicity formula with a £0.69 camera app. For the most part, Analog Camera for iOS delivers what you'd expect: an unbelievably fast and straightforward app for snapping photos, adding gauzy filters, and uploading the shots to the Internet. You can see the filters and sharing in the screenshots above. There's nothing surprising about this functionality at all. [£0.69]

Tall Tall Chess: When you're in the market for a plain ol' chess app, there's really only so many variations until they all start looking the same. Tall Chess, at least, embraces this simplicity with bright colours, clean lines, and a bird's eye's view of the entire board. You can, as is now expected in nearly every mobile game, play against both friends and strangers. And it's free—as long as you only want to play one game at a time, that is. [Free]